Engineer Project
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Praveen Kothapally
Email: *********@********.***
Address: **********@*****.***
City: SunnyVale
State: CA
Zip: 94086
Country: USA
Phone: 408-***-****
Skill Level: Management
Salary Range: $124,000
Willing to Relocate
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PRAVEEN KOTHAPALLY
QA LEAD
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Career Summary
Over 10 years of diversified experience in QA Management, Software Testing and Automation, software & quality assurance - Inspections, risk management, requirements analysis & reviews, software metrics, quality and test plans, Requirement Specifications, test cases and designs, Testing & Validation, Bug tracking, Change control and configuration management. Has working knowledge in various domains like Mobile, Sales, CRM, Banking, HR, Finance, Logistics, Manufacturing, BI and Marketing.
A performance-oriented individual with dedication, self-learning, keen on improvisation and implementation, with passion for new technologies. Skilled at building strong team environments and fostering open communications.
A forward thinking, capable and committed test manager with a proven ability to meet agreed deadlines, co-ordinate work and work to defined testing methodologies within a structured environment. Focused on any task at hand and able to utilize existing test knowledge and experiences to come up with practical solutions and alternatives to testing processes. Having first class executive leadership, negotiating and communicating skills and capable of providing authoritative guidance and advice to both in house and third party test teams.
Key skills
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
* Software Project Management
* Agile Project Management
* Process Management
* Risk Management
* Test Management
* Software Quality Assurance
* Software Quality Control
* Requirements Analysis
* Test Strategy
* Test Planning
* Test Estimation
* QA Engineering
* Effort Estimation
* Manual Testing
* Performance Testing
* Defect Tracking
* User Acceptance Testing
* Integration Testing
* Black Box Testing
* End-to-end Testing
* Ad-hoc Testing
* Test Automation
* Project Status Reporting
* Continuous Integration
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
* Has worked on Selenium, AppPerfect, JUNIT, TestNG, Sikuli, Xcode, QTP, Win Runner, Test Director and has extensive experience in Functional, Automation, Integration, System, Backend, Data ware house and Regression Testing. Well versed with testing concepts and methodologies.
* Experienced in Java, Unix, PL-SQL, VSTS, PS, SQL Server, .Net, C# and VS and testing tools for doing Load testing and Code coverage analysis.
PROFESSIONAL ABILITIES
* Excellent reputation as detail-oriented lead with skills in communication and project management.
* Very good knowledge in QA methodologies. Involved with setting standards and identifying, recommending, and implementing changes to enhance the effectiveness of quality assurance strategies.
* Experience in writing Test Scripts, Test Cases and execute them, problem solving and Bug Reports using Bug tracking tools.
* Good understanding of UNIX fundamentals.
* Practical Experience in using C/C++, Java and .NET technologies.
* Enabled SEI-CMM level 5 and ISO9001 certified companies to bring the focus on quality and effectiveness.
* Used automated tools Selenium, App-Perfect, JUNIT, TestNG, Sikuli and Xcode.
* Strong experience in performing Black Box testing methodologies.
* Strong knowledge in concepts of database design, development and testing of various Client/Server Applications using ORACLE, SQL.
* Experience of working on Business Technical and Functional Requirements.
* Able to take preventative action when any risks become unacceptable.
* Understanding of different test approaches and techniques.
* Actively maintain awareness and understanding of current developments and best practice in testing.
* Knowledge of execution scripting and planning.
MANAGERIAL ABILITIES
* Determined project scope and feature / change requirements, estimated schedules, tracked item completion, maintained project documentation.
* Reviewed Business requirements, IT Design documents and prepared Test Plans for all assigned Project releases
* Multiple multi-level team management.
* Experience in managing multi-location teams.
* Ability to lead offshore testing teams.
* Experience of client facing roles.
* Constantly maintaining high levels of accuracy.
* Ability to quickly learn applications with minimal documentation
* An understanding & appreciation of the full development life cycle & how testing relates to it.
* Can translate business processes into clear and comprehensive test scenarios.
Work experience
Infosys Technologies Ltd 04 / 2007 - Present Technical Test Lead / QA Process Manager
Accenture Inc. 12 / 2005 - 03 / 2007 QA Analyst
Alamy Images 07 / 2004 - 12 / 2005 Software Test Engineer
Informa Technologies 04 / 2002 - 12 / 2005 Test Engineer
Work experience (in detail)
Company: INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
Client: Apple Inc.
Role: Process Management and QA Lead Duration: Nov 2010- Till Date
Worked on Sales Systems portfolio as Process manager and QA lead by implementing the processes across different projects in the portfolio. Interacting with the clients on the business need and smooth working of the projects. Few of the activities include:
* Preparing and executing Automation scripts for different applications in sales systems using selenium. Testing abd generating reports out the tool and using in-house bug reporting tool
* Establishing the gating process across the projects in a portfolio.
* Hand holding of projects through different phases by communicating with different teams. Interacting with the business and management on releases and understanding/ documenting the requirements.
* Bring the QA team to the pace for every release by giving knowledge transfer sessions.
* Working on global delivery model to ensure releases are done smoothly.
* Involve in review and execution of QA when ever necessary.
* Performed different levels & types of tests like Functional Testing, Automation testing, Ad-hoc testing Positive/Negative Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Cross -browser Testing, Compatibility testing for web applications.
Company: INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
Client: Microsoft Inc.
Role: QA Lead Duration: Apr 2007- Oct 2010
Multiple projects which were handled while working for Microsoft.
Project Name RxD - ALES
Description of the project:
This project is enhancements and support for the existing web based application, which is used by the partners of Microsoft worldwide. Partners used some of the internal applications partner trainings, Partner Management, Portal for Partners worldwide.
Role : Team Lead
Responsibility : Review of test cases/ scenarios, Test planning, estimations, Requirement Analysis, Schedule and task tracking, System Testing, Team coordination, Mentoring, Status reporting, Tracking (at module level), Knowledge Management (prepare, People Management, Tracking, Customer interfacing.
Duration : November 2008 to October 2010
Hardware : Windows server 2008, exchange server 2008, windows XP, Vista
Software : VSTS 2008, Visual studio 2008, C#, .Net
Project Name Rhythm of Business (RoB)
Description of the project:
RoB is a project for the Microsoft business forecast and productivity. This application mainly deals with the revenue of various products, software and applications inside Microsoft.
Role : Test Lead
Responsibility : Test planning, use case designing, test scenarios designing, Test cases designing for Integration testing, System testing, Build verification testing, Data conversion testing, Performance testing, Peer Reviews for Requirements, Designing, Coding and Testing, Integration Testing, System testing, Regression testing, SQL Scripting & SQL Jobs Testing, Performance testing, Usability testing, data warehousing testing. Attending weekly conference calls to communicate weekly status with onsite effectively and also attending conference calls frequently as per the project need, Maintaining Issues through Issue Tracker, Action plans through Action tracker Maintaining Test Repositories
Duration : April 2007 to November 2008
Hardware : Windows server 2003/2008, Windows XP
Software : Sql Server 2005 (Yukon), Data Warehousing, Data Mining, OLAP
Company: ACCENTURE SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED
Client: Microsoft Inc.
Role: Senior Software Engineer/QA Analyst Duration: Dec 2005 - Mar 2007
Project Name : Subscription Management Tool
Description of the project:
This application enables PLS (Product Launch Service) PMs (VL+ Programs) + MSDN Product Group to work on planning of Subscription Products. It is a database for storing, retrieving, and managing Subscription Kit Management data in the planning stages and eventually using this SMT data for facilitating creation of part number and BOM data.
Role : Senior Software Engineer
Responsibility : Test planning, use case designing, test scenarios designing, Test cases designing for Integration testing, System testing, Build verification testing, Data conversion testing, Performance testing, Peer Reviews for Requirements, Designing, Coding and Testing, Integration Testing, System testing, Regression testing, Database SQL Scripts Testing & SQL Jobs Testing, Data conversion testing, Performance testing, Usability testing, User Acceptance Testing, Attending weekly conference calls to communicate weekly status with onsite effectively, and also attending conference calls frequently as per the project need, Maintaining Issues through Issue Tracker, Action plans through Action tracker Maintaining Test Repositories as per CMM Level5.
Duration : December 2005 till March 2007
Hardware : Win XP, Win 98, Win 2000.
Software : VSTS 2005, .Net Framework 2.0.TSP/PSP, MS Office
Company: ALAMY IMAGES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
Client: Various.
Role: Test Engineer Duration: Jul 2004 - Dec 2005
Multiple projects which were handled while working for Alamy Images.
Project Name : Contributor Tool
Client : In - house Project
Description of the project:
This application is a online tool which is used by the contributors submitting their images to Alamy. This tool gives contributor the complete control of the image where he can edit all the details regarding the image like keywords, licensing, pseudonyms etc.
Role : Test Engineer
Responsibility : Usability Testing, functional testing and cosmetic error testing was done along with browser compatibility testing on different browsers.
Duration : June 2005 till December 2005
Hardware : Win XP, Win 98, Win 2000, MAC OS 9 and MAC OS X.
Software : WAS, ACT, Bug collector Pro
Project Name : CRM Finance Application Testing
Client : In - house Project
Description of the project:
This Finance application is an in house application for accessing the images being sold. It mainly used by the sales team in accessing the exact price of the image along with the taxes being calculated by the application.
Role : Test Engineer
Responsibility : Usability testing and functional Testing was done in steps for different modules prepared manually going through every link in the page. Different stages are checked for the buyers whether to approve, reject or delete the account whenever necessary.
Duration : November 2004 till June 2005
Hardware : Win XP, Win 98, Win 2000, MAC OS 9 and MAC OS X.
Software : WAS, Bug collector Pro
Project Name : NAS Box Testing and Http Handler testing
Client : In - house Project
Description of the project:
Images stored in new Systems called NAS boxes instead of the current SAN boxes and due to this change the website of Alamy improved performance and usability completely. Http handler tool is used to divert the requests made to the main thumbnail server to a local thumbnail server and fetch the images from it. This increased the performance of the site
Role : Test Engineer
Responsibility : Testing is done to check the working of the Handler and time taken for the images to download from the main server to the local server and display accordingly if not present in the server. This helped a lot for the future enhancements made for the expansion of Alamy to other countries.
Duration : July 2004 till November 2004
Hardware : Windows Web Server 2003, IIS Server, NAS Box, ISA Server
Software : Microsoft Web Application Stress Tool
Company: INFORMA TECHNOLOGIES
Client: Various.
Role: Test Engineer Duration: May 2002 - Jul 2004
Project Name : Production Planning And Management
Client : Algo Informatics
Description of the project:
Production Planning Management is an ERP software Developed for Large Scale Heavy Hammer Industry where the Quality of Iron to be taken care. With the Help of PPM we can maintain the details of all the Operations that take place in a Hammer Industry.
Role : Test Engineer
Responsibility : As a part of QA team, involved in Test case generation, execution, and test case management. Involved in Review and Maintenance of Manual test cases. Executed System Test Cases to check the functionality of the application against the User requirements, Defect reporting and review for every release cycle.
Duration : May 2002 till October 2003
Hardware : Win XP, Win 98, Win 2000
Software : Test Director 7, Win runner 7
Project Name : GCX - Get Claim X
Client : Med Link (MNT).
Description of the project:
This Project application allows import of raw EDI or print Image of HCFA form data file and perform general checks and payer specific checks for a particular claim, thus capturing all the problems in the data before they are actually sent to the clearing house.
Role : Test Engineer
Responsibility : Preparation, review and execution of test scripts, generation of Test defect report for analysis at the end of each release cycle. Positive and negative testing was performed for this application.
Duration : October 2003 till July 2004
Hardware : Win XP, Win 98, Win 2000
Software : Test Director 7.0
Academic qualifications
Bangalore University 1998 - 2001 B.E, Electricals and Electronics Engineering
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